# meanwhile on the beeminder forum: triangular beeminding, alcohol, and books **URL:** \ **Category:** uncategorized\ **Created:** [March 16, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/meanwhile-on-the-beeminder-forum-triangular-beeminding-alcohol-and-books/1552 "2015-03-16T23:09:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/meanwhile-on-the-beeminder-forum-triangular-beeminding-alcohol-and-books/1552/1 "2015-03-16T23:09:54Z")
We’ve successfully moved critical mass to the new [forum.beeminder.com](http://forum.beeminder.com) (it’s super great!). If you’re reading this you are so 2014. But this email is me trying out using this google group for pointers to the best forum posts. Right now the buzz is in this discussion on beeminding alcohol: > [@Triangular beeminding for tracking alcohol consumption](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/triangular-beeminding-for-tracking-alcohol-consumption/543): > > This is an experimental goal I’m running that whomever was behind the twitter account today suggested I should post about here, so here I am. smile I drink a little too much. Not like “I have a problem” too much, but more like “I could probably stand to have maybe 2 or 3 fewer drinks a week” too much. I’ve previously beeminded units of alcohol consumption and concluded that actually measured as a number of units per week I’m fine. Certainly well within the recommended health guidelines - mos… If you want something less daunting, here’s a short collection of book recommendations: > [@Book Recommendations](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/book-recommendations/596): > > In response to the recent thread on [Slate Star Codex’s take on Baumeister’s “Willpower”](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/slate-star-codex-on-willpower/593 "Mostly me replying to people who are wrong on the internet (not really)"), someone asked for book recommendations. Here are the first ones that came to mind: Ainslie’s Breakdown of Will Thaler and Sunstein’s Nudge Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow (not directly related to willpower) Nick Winter’s The Motivation Hacker Akst’s We Have Met the Enemy Ayres’s Carrots and Sticks (and [a paper by the other StickK cofounder](http://karlan.yale.edu/p/AnnualReviewEdits4.pdf "The Beeminder blog post, 'Synonyms for Self-binding' refers to this paper") is very good but very academic) Schelling’s Choice and Consequenc… Here’s everything in the Akrasia category: > **[Akrasia](https://forum.beeminder.com/c/akrasia/5)** > > Most topics belong here! Things to beemind, other tools and lifehacks, behavioral economics, commitment devices, hyperbolic discounting, and anything about Beeminder that isn’t too technical. Everything previously discussed on Akratics Anonymous. And for discussion of my (ab)use of good old Akratics Anonymous: > [@Moving from Google Groups](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/moving-from-google-groups/88): > > Do you think we should turn off the Akratics Anonymous Google Group? What about importing the archives? – [http://dreev.es](http://dreev.es) – search://“Daniel Reeves” Goal tracking + Commitment contracts == [http://beeminder.com](http://beeminder.com)